Tyson Clark, a general partner with Alphabet’s venture arm, GV, has passed away unexpectedly. GV CEO David Krane just issued a statement about the team’s loss, writing, “With great sadness, we share the news that Tyson Clark, our friend and GV general partner, passed away yesterday due to sudden complications from a health issue. We […]
Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech
It is a financial and a moral imperative to make climate technology, together with medicine, the main priority of humanity.
Gift Guide: The best business books for 2021 recommended by VCs
Welcome to part two of our venture capital-recommended book gift guide for 2021 – talking about books that do have a business theme.
Work-Bench report finds just 1.9% of venture investment going to female enterprise founders
A new report from early-stage venture capital firm Work-Bench confirmed what you probably already know: Startups with women founders are getting a mere sliver of the overall funding pie. What’s more, the percentages are far worse in the enterprise, where Work-Bench tends to invest. The numbers, which were based on Work-Bench research along with data from […]
Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment
A few years ago, at the start of the fintech services boom in Africa, Oliver Blantern got an opportunity to work in the continent offering advisory services to high-growth startups. For slightly over three years his company, Riverhouse Technology, helped the emerging tech firms in talent sourcing and acquisition. The trained lawyer did all this […]
TrueNorth has raised $50 million from Sam Altman and others to empower independent truckers
Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving, she says she came to appreciate how far away the tech is from large-scale adoption. Indeed, when Scotty was acquired by DoorDash in the summer of 2019, she teamed up with Sanjaya […]
Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit
The bigger the impact, the bigger the problem — and likely the bigger the market opportunity and financial return. Impact is where the problems are.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Credit Karma post-exit, recruiting developers, re:Invent recap
The very day in Feb. 2020 that Credit Karma planned to announce that it had been acquired by Intuit for over $7 billion, the stock market tanked, spooked by news that a virus could start a pandemic.
Max Q: Rocket Lab unveils Neutron, plus more private space station news
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! There was a TON of space news this week so I won’t ramble too much, other than to remind you that many of the people mentioned below will be at TC Sessions: Space on the 14th and 15th! That includes Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab, Nanoracks’ Jeffrey Manber, and […]
Former Lyft CSO and Freestyle Capital co-founder team up to back climate tech startups
When it comes to saving the planet, Raj Kapoor, Lyft’s former chief strategy officer and head of business, doesn’t think asking consumers (or the government) to change their ways is an effective strategy. Instead, he and Josh Felser, the co-founder of Freestyle Capital and a serial entrepreneur, are betting that the future of climate tech […]